Re: editing configurations

2009-09-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,07.Sep.09, 23:02:23, AG wrote: > [1] I think that sudo is installed by default, so what you would > need to do then is enter into a text-based terminal su (which will > allow you to login as root) and then visudo . This will open up a > file for you to edit. This is very straightforward -

Re: editing configurations

2009-09-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-09-07 20:54, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:45:53 -0500 Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-09-07 20:29, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:09:18 -0500 Ron Johnson wrote: (Let's bring this back to the list...) On 2009-09-07 16:46, John Mundinger wrote: ... The wireless card is

Re: editing configurations

2009-09-07 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:45:53 -0500 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-09-07 20:29, Celejar wrote: > > On Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:09:18 -0500 > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > >> (Let's bring this back to the list...) > >> > >> On 2009-09-07 16:46, John Mundinger wrote: > > > > ... > > > >>> The wireless car

Re: editing configurations

2009-09-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-09-07 20:29, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:09:18 -0500 Ron Johnson wrote: (Let's bring this back to the list...) On 2009-09-07 16:46, John Mundinger wrote: ... The wireless card is a netgear wg511. That old card only supports WEP encryption, which is nothing more than an

Re: editing configurations

2009-09-07 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:09:18 -0500 Ron Johnson wrote: > > (Let's bring this back to the list...) > > On 2009-09-07 16:46, John Mundinger wrote: ... > > The wireless card is a netgear wg511. > > That old card only supports WEP encryption, which is nothing more > than an invitation for bad gu

Re: editing configurations

2009-09-07 Thread Ron Johnson
(Like I said... let's keep this on the list) On 2009-09-07 17:23, John Mundinger wrote: I think I created two accounts when I installed the system. I don't see an option for logging into a root account while the system is booting up. The only login option that I see is at the GUI. Good

Re: editing configurations

2009-09-07 Thread AG
John Mundinger wrote: I have an older laptop computer and decided that I would like to become familiar with working in the Linux operation environment. Welcome aboard :-) So, I downloaded an image file for the minimal installation [i386] and, after burning that image to a CD, I used the CD to

Re: editing configurations

2009-09-07 Thread Ron Johnson
(Let's bring this back to the list...) On 2009-09-07 16:46, John Mundinger wrote: I got as far as I did by doing my own research. Great! When I installed the system, the routine instructed me to create a user account, which I did, and I logon with that account. That user doesn't have the

Re: editing configurations

2009-09-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-09-07 16:11, John Mundinger wrote: I have an older laptop computer and decided that I would like to become familiar with working in the Linux operation environment. So, I downloaded an image file for the minimal installation [i386] and, after burning that image to a CD, I used the CD to